Kirk Deeter

I’d have caught that scum-scum sucking pig rainbow trout if... I’d have done what jvento suggested: “Size up to an 18 non-parachute pattern and keep the emerger on. Cast and play the waiting game. Let him find your fly instead of presenting it in front of him.”

Winter can be the most rewarding season of the year for fly anglers. If you can stand the cold, you just might have the river to yourself, experiencing solitude that’s rarely found when the mayflies are hatching in spring and summer. But there’s another reason to get out and fish between December an…

The “Going Deep” features I wrote for Field & Stream are some of my favorite stories I’ve ever written. I started with trout and that eventually led to bass and other species like pike and walleye. The premise was simple: To truly understand fish, you have to “be the fish.” So I put on scuba gear, w…

_ Photo by John Juracek_ Shortly after daybreak on a hot, grimy Montana morning, Pete Cardinal and I stood knee-deep in the Missouri River and watched flies flutter by the thousands. Thick gray columns of the bugs wafted like smoke plumes over the foamy eddy upstream. The trout were already dialed i…

I absolutely loved Dave Wolak’s post on The Lateral Line the other day on the reasons why fly fishing for trout can help anglers be more effective at catching bass. Though I’m mostly considered a “fly guy,” I have covered bass fishing in the past, including the Bassmaster Classic. I’ve always been i…

Greetings from Laxardalur (the Salmon River Valley) in Iceland. We are targeting giant, native brown trout (pictured) with dry flies. We’re fishing large attractor patterns like Fat Alberts, Amy’s Ants, and other beetle-like imitations. Thing is, there are few, if any, natural bugs like this here (m…

Cast without a rod.

After careful thought, I have decided to award the prize (The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing) to Kyle Deneen. He wrote: My cat Schizmak, (I just wanted to put his name in there because its cool) is a long haired Russian Blue, when the winters are around I take his under coat and use it for some of t…

We’ve spent a lot of time talking about catch-and-release ethics and taking grip-n-grin photos, keeping ’em wet, and all that stuff. I think we’ve done a pretty good job of sticking to our 2015 New Year’s resolution of getting away from grip-n-grins, but to be honest with you, the notion that fish w…

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